-302

This page relates to the year -302 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Chandragupta Maurya sign a peace treaty with Séleucos I {{er}} which directs Babylon. Séleucos yields the Arachosie and the Paropamisades to Chandragupta. Séleucos receives 500 elephants of war and Chandragupta Maurya wife one of her daughters.

the Second alliance of the Diadoque S against Antigonos Monophtalmos and his/her son Démétrios Ier Poliorcète which then dominate the Raising, the Syria, the Asia Mineure and the Greece.
Spring:

Démétrios unloads with Éphèse.
Cassandre of Macedonia benefits from the departure of Démétrios to take again Thessalie. It drives out Pyrrhus I {{er}} of the throne of Épire to the profit of Néoptolème II (until in -297).

Antigonos Monophtalmos besieges Lysimaque with Dorylée in Phrygie.
Failure of the forwarding of Cassandre in Asia carried out by Pleistarchos. It joined Lysimaque with Héraclée of the Bridge in winter.

Mithridate I {{er}} Ktistês becomes Persian satrap of Cappadoce Pontique (fine in -266).

With Rome, Consul At of Mr. Livius To cog, Mr. Aemilius Paullus.
the Romans penetrate in the interior Étrurie. They are victorious with the Bataille of Roselle and intervene with Arezzo to support Cilnii (of the family of Mécène).
Dictatorship of Caius Iunius Bubulcus Brutus. This one drives out the adventurer Spartan Cléonime Italian coasts of the south.

Foundation of the Stoicism.
the Greek start with to write by binding the letters, in writing Cursive.
Mencius (Pinyin Mengzi, EFEO Meng-tzu) spreads in China the renewed doctrines of Confucius.

Séleucos I {{er}} sends the geographer Mégasthènes in embassy near the king Chandragupta Maurya (- 302/-297). This one resides at the court maurya, Pataliputra (Patna), and writes a detailed report/ratio of the India, today lost, known partially by quotations of Greek and Latin authors. This document constitutes the first description of India by a foreigner.
Mégasthènes particularly admires Chandragupta for its energetic administration of the justice, which it returns in person during public. The sovereign resides in a gigantic palate but lives in fear of be assassinated. Its Pataliputra capital is large and beautiful city, surrounded by a wall out of wooden, managed by a council of thirty members responsible for the economic life and social. Megasthenes reports that there exists in the empire seven trade associations (philosophical, farmers, shepherds, craftsmen, soldiers, spies, advisers) and a great number of government officials.

Simple: 302 BC

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